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'Mickey Blue Eyes' has most of the ingredients in place for another one of those married-to-the-mob comedies, but the central character has to hold it together, and is wrong for the role. More than some actors, perhaps, he depends on correct casting for his appeal-and here, as an art auctioneer who gets into danger after falling in love with a mobster's daughter, he strikes one wrong note and then another.The setup is ingenious. He's Michael Felgate, an art expert, proper, reserved, with a mid-Atlantic accent, and he falls in love with a dazzling young woman named Gina Vitale, who loves him, too-but explains they can never marry? She's reluctant to tell him, but she fears for his life if he gets too close to her dad's mob connections.Advertisement. Michael blunders ahead anyway. He meets her dad , who runs a restaurant where the customers all seem supplied by Central Casting, Gangster Division.
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The inimitable, who was so funny as the bodyguard in ',' is even on hand. Michael's slow to catch on: 'Your dad is some kind of mob caterer?' And he asks the wrong questions for the right reasons ('Are you mostly family?'
But before she realizes what's happening, her dad has taken a liking to Michael, and the wedding is on.Complications. The big boss (nicely played by ) doesn't know the real story. There are misunderstandings. Michael has to pose as a mobster to save his life. He gets lessons in pronunciation, to learn to talk like a gangster, and these scenes are so badly handled by Grant that the movie derails and never recovers.
Either he can't do a plausible mob accent, or he thought it wasn't called for. The squawks and gurgles he produces, both during the lessons and later, are so strangled and peculiar that we wonder why the other actors don't just break off and wait for the next take.Grant is wrong for the role anyway.
He has a good line in charm and wit, he can play intelligent and vulnerable, and he's likable. But there's never a moment here where he convinces us that he's truly desperate or in danger. He drops into the movie like a dinner guest; we're reminded of somebody unflappable like, although Niven could play desperate when he had to.is sufficiently convincing as the woman who loves him, although it must have seemed odd to her, being so intense in the face of his cool. Caan and Young are right at home (Young's thin lips releasing each word grudgingly), and Viterelli is a mountain of plausibility.
But without a strong center, there's not enough for them to play against.Advertisement. A side plot, involving as a major player in the art world, seems like an afterthought, but there is funny stuff about art in the movie.
I liked the plot device of a mobster's son who paints unspeakably awful pictures (Jesus with a machinegun, etc). They end up at auction, where they turn out to be a handy way to launder money (mob pays big for painting, son therefore has legitimate income from art). There are interesting consequences when the paintings become sought-after, especially by a sweet little old lady who is tempted by dangerous investments.All good stuff, but it doesn't add up.
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Is this movie Hugh Grant's fault? I don't know.
Not many actors can save themselves from wrong casting. On paper perhaps Grant looked right.
But consider his success in '.' Even there, faced with the loss of the woman he loved, his instincts were not to scream but to apologize. Some actors can convey charm and desperation in a romantic farce ( comes to mind) and some need to be a little more grounded in reality. After the bite and freshness of 'Analyze This,' 'Mickey Blue Eyes' plays like an afterthought.
A true family affair is in the core ofMickey Blue Eyes, from the mob right down to the collaborationof star Hugh Grant and his wife, Elizabeth Hurley as producer.Ive always giggled at the scene in the trailer where James Caanis attempting to teach Hugh Grant how to speak like a true NewYorker, a classic, almost worth the exorbitant ticket prices oftoday. The album from Milan bleeds Italiano, but that skewed, strangeside that makes it a fit for a film like this.It isn't advertised until you pop the lid on the CD that thefilmmakers enlisted the talents of veteran composer Basil Poledourisand Wolfgang Hammerschmid.
The score that these two put together forthe film, which seems to be a trend recently in Hollywood, is asclose to stereotypical as you could get to 'mob music.' It fits giventhat the film is a play on the stereotype, and adds to the atmosphereof the film that any good score would. Unfortunately, with thepresentation here on the CD, the flow and continuity is broken by thesomewhat out of sequence songs that appear in the film (the openingcredit song shows up as track four on the CD).It's not very memorable, but the score and the song selections fitthe bill for the film, and are likeable in their moments on this CD.The odd little bonus track, 'F. Cookie!' Would lead you tobelieve that we'd have some choice dialogue from that very funnyrestaurant scene, but it's actually just the background Chinesemusic.
It seems a little out of place, but at least it's on the endof the CD. However, I think this is one of the few movies that couldhave benefited from dialogue snippets and choice quotes, but usuallythey are never used sparingly enough.